. J. William Whitaker has released the second book in a series of historical fiction, The Toll of Folly. It is the sequel to his first work, Some Damn Fool Thing and explores from the perspective of four young Parisians as well as key historic figures the crucial days when The Great War broke out across Europe. History is a narrative built on the summed experience of lives over a […]
Readers of William Whitaker’s Some Damn Fool Thing have been introduced to the events of March 31, 1905 in its first chapters, but from the perspective of over one hundred years it is difficult to appreciate the the basis and extent of the reaction that a speech by Kaiser Wilhelm elicited that day. The seeds for the dramatic response provoked by Wilhelm had been first sown some forty years previously […]
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